James Gaddas

James Gaddas (born 9 June 1960) is an English actor best known for his roles in Coronation Street, Bad Girls, Doctors, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks.

James Gaddas
Born	(1960-06-09) 9 June 1960 (age 65) Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present
Notable credits	Coronation Street (1989, 1999–2000) Medics (1992–1995) Bad Girls (2002–2006) Doctors (2008, 2011) Emmerdale (2011, 2015) Tracy Beaker Returns (2012) Hollyoaks (2020–2021)
Spouse	Deborah Gaddas
Children	1

Career

Gaddas played Eddie Ainsworth in the tenth episode of the seventh series of Heartbeat. Since leaving Bad Girls, Gaddas has appeared as Jackie Elliot in Billy Elliot the Musical, productions of Peter Pan and Spamalot and Bill Anderson in Mamma Mia! in London. Gaddas has also made appearances on The Bill, Between the Lines, Tracy Beaker Returns, Medics, Dogtown, Doctors, Waterloo Road and in 2015, he acted in Emmerdale, playing Ged, who is a prisoner awaiting trial for murder.

In 2017 he played John in the musical The Girls at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End.^[1] In 2020, he joined the cast of the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Cormac Ranger.^[2][3]

In September 2021, it was announced that Gaddas would write and star in a new version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Gaddas will portray 15 characters during the show, which is to tour England in 2022 and include music by Jeremy Swift.^[4][5]

Politics

Gaddas was selected as Conservative candidate for Stockton South in the 2005 UK general election, but finished in second place behind Labour's incumbent Dari Taylor, winning 34.1% of the vote.^[6][7] He left the party shortly afterwards.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Crown Court	PC Robertshaw	Episode: "Window Shopping Part 1"
1983	Seaview	Malcolm	Episode: "In Sickness"
1984	Last Day of Summer	Pete	Television film
	The Secret Servant	Major Jackaman	Series 1 Episode 3
	Crown Court	Paul Walker	Episode: "Dirty Washing Part 1"
1985	Screen Two	Stretcher bearer	Episode: "The Unknown Soldier"
	Late Starter	Mr. Ferrar	Series 1 Episode 3
	Summer Season	Sergeant	Episode: "The House on Kirov Street"
	Operation Julie	Sid Bell	Television film
	Jackanory Playhouse	King Amaranth	Episode: "The Princess and the Lute Player"
1986	Dead Man's Folly	Young Foreign Man	Uncredited
	Dempsey and Makepeace	Andy	Episode: "Extreme Prejudice"
1987	A Hazard of Hearts	Lord John Burley
	Crime in the City	Jimmy	Short film
1988	Wish Me Luck	Soldier in cinema
	Troubles	Pike
	The Bill	Sgt. Towers	Episode: "The Silent Gun"
1989	Something for the Weekend	Various roles	Also co-writer
	The Pied Piper	RAF driver	Television film
	Coronation Street	Robert Prescott	3 episodes
1990	El C.I.D.	Bendel	Episode: "Copping Out"
1991	The Black Candle	Joe Skinner	Television film
	Paul Merton: The Series		Series 1 Episode 4
1992	The Camomile Lawn	Tony	5 episodes
	Dream Kitchen
	Between the Lines	DS Markham	Episode: "Watching the Detectives"
	The Dying of the Light	Terry Lewis
1992-1995	Medics	Dr Robert Nevin	33 episodes
1993	Drop the Dead Donkey	Gary	Episode: "Awards"
	The Bill	Brian Ashmore	Episode: "Tangled Webs"
1994-1995	Class Act	D.I Latham	13 episodes
1997	Backup	PC Jim "Grim" Reaper	6 episodes
	The Informant	British I.O
	Bombay Blue	David Jackson	Series 1 Episode 3
	Stone Cold	Vince
	Heartbeat	Eddie Ainsworth	Episode: "Playing with Trains"
1998	Human Bomb	Franck	Television film
	Girls' Night	Paul
	Peak Practice	Ian Tate	Episode: "A Child I Dreamed"
	Grafters	Ray	Series 1 Episode 2
1999	Jonathan Creek	Craig Downey	Episode: "The Eyes of Tiresias"
1999-2000	Coronation Street	Vinny Sorrell	108 episodes
2001	Starhunter	Senaca	2 episodes
2002-2006	Bad Girls	Neil Grayling	52 episodes
2005	Casualty @ Holby City	Carl O'Leary	4 episodes
	Holby City	Carl O'Leary	2 episodes
	Casualty	Carl O'Leary	2 episodes
2006	Starter for 10	Martin Jackson
	Dogtown	Geogg Torville	6 episodes
	Vincent	DI Deighton	Series 2 Episode 3
2008-2011	Doctors	Jack Harcourt	13 episodes
2009	The Bill	Ian Ellis	2 episodes
	Heartbeat	Danny Riggs	Episode: "Pass the Parcel"
2012	Waterloo Road	Alan Dixon	2 episodes
	Tracy Beaker Returns	Denis	2 episodes
2015	Emmerdale	Ged	6 episodes
2016	Casualty	Howard Munroe	Episode: "Fall on Me"
2017	Against the Law	Governor Cockayne	Television film
	Starhunter Redux	Senaca	2 episodes
	Casualty	Howard Munroe	Episode: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
2020	Outlander	Judge Martin Atticus	Episode: "Better to Marry Than Burn"
	A short film about Serial Killing	Sir Anthony Farrow QC
2020-2021	Hollyoaks	Cormac Ranger	9 episodes
2024	Sister Boniface Mysteries	Lindsay Calder-Marshall	Episode: "It's Just Not Cricket"